Arctic Circle - Rovaniemi, Finland
Posted by: small oaks
N 66° 32.611 E 025° 50.792
35W E 448766 N 7380967
Arctic Circle at Santa Claus Village rest stop area in Rovaniemi, Finland has about one feet thick painted line of Arctic circle going through the area, even inside the buildings.
Waymark Code: WM71R2
Location: Finland
Date Posted: 08/19/2009
Views: 283
You can see the Arctic Circle line even on Finnish - Citizens MapSite. (
visit link)
On the line there is writen Arctic circle, Napapiiri, Polarkreis among others. Also there is latitude of arctic circle writen N 66.32'35''. When compared it to 66.33'39'' on wikipedia there is a difference or tolerance.
Explanation to this tolerance is that the Arctic Circle changes continuously either North or South, sometimes by a number of metres in one day. This is because of the Axis of earth changes a bit all the time.
By the way first building of arctic circle erected here in this village in 1950 and it was in honour of the visit by USA's former First Lady Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to Rovaniemi.